"I was shocked. Two scantily clad women and a man smoking a cigar, what were suppose to think he was advertising for?" said Eddings as she described her impression of the billboard located near Camino.

The billboard was one of two along the highway advertising for the Bunny Ranch Restaurant and Bar in Nevada. That establishment is owned by the same man who owns a legal brothel with a similar name, the Moonlite Bunny Ranch.

"Why are we allowing them to advertise something that's illegal in California?" Eddings asked.

However, Dennis Hof, the owner of both establishments, told KCRA3 the billboard was only advertising for his restaurant, not his brothel.

"My restaurant and bar is a mile away from the Moonlite. This was not advertising prostitution," Hof said.

Still, the billboards created enough of a stir that El Dorado County's Board of Supervisors discussed taking action.

"However, due to free-speech rights, our attorneys made clear there wasn't much we could do," said an El Dorado County official who asked not to be named in this story because county leaders did not want to create any more publicity for these billboards.

Now, several months after the billboards went up, Hof said he has taken the billboard nearest to Placerville down because of the concerns expressed.

"I think when they see the Bunny Ranch Bar they're assuming it's the brothel and you know what happens when you assume," Hof said.

BE KEEPING A NIGHT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE LIGHTNING DOESN'T SPARK NEW FIRES. PROTESTS AND COMPLAINTS ABOUT THIS AND ANOTHER EL DORADO COUNTY BILLBOARD PAID FOR BY THE OWNER OF A NEVADA BROTHEL. ONE BILLBOARD IS GONE AND ANOTHER REMAINS IN QUESTION IS THE MAN WHO PUTS THEM UP BOUNCED TO PUBLIC PRESSURE TO PUT THEM DOWN. -- BOWS TO PUBLIC PRESSURE TO PUT THEM DOWN. YOU SPOKE WITH THE OWNER TODAY. HE TOLD ME WHAT HAPPENED WITH HIS BILLBOARD BETWEEN PLACERVILLE IN SOUTH LAKE TAHOE WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING. ONE CONCERNED PARENT TOLD ME THAT, TO HER, ONE LOOK AT THE BILLBOARD SHOWED HER THAT THERE WAS NO MISTAKING WHAT IT WAS SELLING. THIS IS A LOOK AT ONE OF THE TWO BILLBOARDS THAT CONTINUES TO GARNER REACTION FROM PEOPLE DRIVING TO AND FROM LAKE TAHOE ALONG HIGHWAY 50. I THINK IT'S COOL. I HATE IT. I DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE UP THERE. I THINK THEY SHOULD TAKE IT DOWN. THIS BILLBOARD ADVERTISES A BUNNY RANCH BAR IN NEVADA WHO OWNS A LEGAL NEVADA BROTHEL JUST OUTSIDE OF CARSON CITY. I WAS SHOCKED AND I WAS REALLY ASTONISHED. SHE DROVE HER KIDS PAST THESE BILLBOARDS ON HER WAY TO SCHOOL. YOU IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT IT WAS A BROTHEL. I DID. SHE AND OTHERS EXPRESSED CONCERN S SEVERAL WEEKS AGO HOPING THAT THE LEADERS WOULD FORCE THE BILLBOARDS TO COME DOWN. THEY TOLD ME THEY DIDN'T WANT TO SAY ANYTHING ON CAMERA ABOUT THIS BILLBOARD FOR FEAR IT COULD BE JUST A PUBLICITY STUNT. PUBLICITY OR NOT, HE SAYS THAT THEY WERE NOT ADVERTISING, PRESS -- ADVERTISING PROSTITUTION BUT DOES THE BAR AND RESTAURANT. HE AGREED TO TAKE DOWN THE CLOSEST TO PLACERVILLE. I THINK WHEN WE SEE THIS SIGN THIS IS BUNNY RANCH BAR, THE ASSUME THAT IT IS A BROTHEL. YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ASSUME. TO THIS COMMENT, A MOTHER HAD A MESSAGE. I THINK HE THINKS WE ARE STUPID. HONESTLY, WE ARE NOT STUPID. EVEN IF COUNTY LEADERS WANT TO BAN THOSE BILLBOARDS ALONG HIGHWAY 50, THEY LIKELY PROBABLY COULDN'T DO TO FREE SPEECH RIGHTS. HOWEVER, HE IS VOWING TO RETURN. HE SAYS HE WILL RETOOL THE BILLBOARD THAT WAS REPLACED IN PLACERVILLE AND RETURNED WITH A BILLBOARD THAT HE SAYS MAKES IT MORE CLEAR EXACTLY WHAT IT IS ADVERTISING. AS FOR THE ONE YOU'RE STRAWBERRY, HE SAYS HE HASN'T RECEIVED ANY COMPLAINTS ABOUT THAT ONE. FOR NOW, THAT THE BOARD REMAINS WHERE IT IS AS IS.